Just now I was searching the 'net for a white sangria recipe. The first one I looked at cracked me up. There's the recipe, then there's the first commenter who gave the recipe five stars out of five, though she said she had to tweak it a "little". Compare the recipes. Other than the fact they both had fruit....

Pour wine in the pitcher and squeeze the juice wedges from the orange,lemon and lime into the wine, add brandy if desired. Toss in the fruit wedges (leaving out seeds if possible) and add sugar. Chill overnight. Add ginger ale or club soda just before serving. If you'd like to serve right away, use chilled white wine and serve over lots of ice.

Addition ideas: sliced strawberries, peaches, handful of fresh blueberries, raspberries, kiwi, a shot or two of gin, brandy or rum, a cup of citrus-flavored soda pop.

Those reviews always crack me up. More often though, I find someone pans a recipe, saying it was awful, but they didn't have dijon so substituted yellow mustard, and didn't have currants so left them out, etc. etc.

Hello. My name is Carrie, and I...I....still like oaked Chardonnay. (Please don't judge.)

Carrie L. wrote:Those reviews always crack me up. More often though, I find someone pans a recipe, saying it was awful, but they didn't have dijon so substituted yellow mustard, and didn't have currants so left them out, etc. etc.

Same here. So much so that I generally don't even read the user reviews; most of what's there just isn't relevant. The recipe itself is going to look like what I need or it's not, and the opinions of people who don't have as good a palate as I do aren't going to help!

My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov

Mike Filigenzi wrote:For a great parody on user-submitted recipes followed by comments that are even better, see the Ice Cube recipe on Food.com.

Excellent!

This comment from the poster is what made me hysterical. " I'm publishing this recipe because I'm sure that there are other families who have members, who don't know how or have forgotten how to make ice when the ice tray is empty. "

OK, so if I had a family member who did not know or had forgotten how to make ice, it would be time for them to receive full time care. Really? Does anyone measure the amount of water they put in their ice trays.?

Karen/NoCA wrote:This comment from the poster is what made me hysterical. " I'm publishing this recipe because I'm sure that there are other families who have members, who don't know how or have forgotten how to make ice when the ice tray is empty. "

Often, comments like that are aimed at teenagers who think that ice cubes just magically appear in the freezer....

Karen/NoCA wrote:This comment from the poster is what made me hysterical. " I'm publishing this recipe because I'm sure that there are other families who have members, who don't know how or have forgotten how to make ice when the ice tray is empty. "

Often, comments like that are aimed at teenagers who think that ice cubes just magically appear in the freezer....

Yea, well some teens do. They think a lot of things that will come to light with maturity and then the bubble bursts.

An aside on the topic of mixed wien drinks. Do they rub anyone else the wrong way? I prefer to drink only wines that are pleasant as wine, and chucking sugar, fruit etc. into a wine doesn't improve it in my book, unless it is a poor wine that I wouldn't drink on its own, in which case why would I drink it tarted up to try and make it palatable? Guess I just don't get mixed drinks based on wine - would rather drink wine.

I'm with you, Bill. Although a few weeks ago, I'll admit to soaking sliced fruit in a cheap white jug wine and then mixing it with ginger ale, on ice, for a "crew brew" kind of pick-me-up when spending all day in the Clubhouse kitchen a few weeks ago when it was 80 degrees outside, and liking that just fine.

My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov

Jenise wrote:I'm with you, Bill. Although a few weeks ago, I'll admit to soaking sliced fruit in a cheap white jug wine and then mixing it with ginger ale, on ice, for a "crew brew" kind of pick-me-up for my helpers when spending all day in the Clubhouse kitchen a few weeks ago when it was 80 degrees outside, and liking that just fine.

My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov

I make an exception for a good-quality Sangría, either red or white. Granted, I only consume them in hot weather, but they can be quite nice. As for the wine involved, I'd place it in the same category as "cooking wine:" a bottle of something that I don't mind drinking but not something that I'd typically drink on its own.